Unc defends the fact he may not carry one gun always.

I do think there’s something wise about carrying one gun in the same location, because it’s a matter of what you train to. You do something so much, things become so natural to you that even when you know it’s not the case, you may still do it. For example, for those of you that wear glasses. Ever have your glasses off, and despite the fact your vision is blurry, you still make the motion to remove your (already removed) glasses? I’ve done that numerous times… getting into the shower, take glasses off, something distracts me, then I go to take my glasses off again. We are creatures of habit, thus it makes sound sense to have the same one and carry it in the same way all the time.

But as a friend of mine likes to say… “You don’t play golf with one club in the bag.”

Life isn’t always conducive to carrying the one gun in the same way all the time. Nor should we pick some least common denominator way to carry and thus carry that way all the time. Carry the best you can as the circumstances dictate. Maybe most of the time you can carry your Government-size 1911 OWB at 3 o’clock, but then there are those times you have to go into an N.P.E. (non-permissive environment) thus the best you can do is a Kel-Tec P-32 in a SmartCarry. Your life is different from my life, our circumstances will not be the same.

If you do have to have different modes of carry, you would be wise to practice with that mode of carry. I recall Tom Givens saying that practice isn’t as much about how much you do it rather how often and how close you were to the last time you practiced (Tom said it far more eloquently). That is, practice a month ago isn’t as meaningful as practice 2 days ago. You’ll get more out of practicing 15 minutes every couple of days than doing a marathon session once a month. Based upon that, if say you have to switch from your 1911 to your Kel-Tec, before you holster up the Kel-Tec in that SmartCarry, unload it and do 15 minutes of dry work with it going over the basics of drawing, sights, trigger press. Make sure you’re familiar with what you’re about to strap on.

I do agree you shouldn’t change your carry options based upon fashion or some other arbitrary reason. But sometimes we can’t carry our ideal piece because well… life isn’t always ideal.